Thinking Matthew Carter. 10 01 1937
“I can’t think of a period in typography that I would rather be working in,” Matthew Carter was born on October 1, 1937 in London, United Kingdom. At the of 20, Carter went to Netherlands to study punch cutting under P.H. Raedisch, Jan Van Krimpen assistant, at Enschedé printing house in Haarlem. His father is...
Thinking Adrian Frutiger. 05 24 1928
“The great stroke of luck in my life is to have been blessed first with an artistic feeling for shapes, and second with an easy grasp of technical processes and of mathematics.”
Thinking Stanley Morison. 05 06 1889
“Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty. ”
Thinking Erik Spiekermann. 05 30 1947
“ALL THESE LINES OF CAPITALS HAVE A SOME-WHAT NEGATIVE EFFECT ON LEGIBILITY. BUT YOU READ IT ANYWAY, DIDN’T YOU?”